Why so serious? Why not? Some more POP thoughts for the weekend, happy Friday y'all.
Gordon Bombay's career record
Oh come on, we knew this was coming. I love the Ducks series, but it's a farce, too. Let's take a closer look today at Bombay's appointment as head coach of Team USA ahead of the Junior Goodwill Games in D2.
But, not too close...
Surely, the best man for the job would have had a good record? Here's Bombay's record:
Regular season
L - Hawks (17-0)
L - Jets (?)
T - Cardinals (2-2)
L - Flames (forfeit!)
W - Huskies (2-1)
Playoffs
W - Hornets (5-3)
W - Cardinals (4-2)
W - Hawks (5-4)
Career record: 4-3-1
Not awful, 4-3-1, and clearly has the hot hand. Maybe he's learning? But on the other hand, barely above .500, and look at those goals allowed totals! Bombay being the best candidate for the national job is the least plausible aspect of a movie franchise that suffers from no shortage of implausibility.
Harry Potter (just one)
Speaking of sports - quidditch? The sport's existence is plausible, but it would have been niche at best, hardly the stuff of major World Cups. At some point, someone (maybe it'll be Dean Thomas) would have just taught everyone how to play soccer on broomsticks, and that would become the most popular sport. You could even do it with bludgers and the stupid snitch.
It speaks to a larger problem about the series - the wizard community seems determined to ignore the Muggle world, but that makes no sense. Muggles do some pretty cool stuff. No one I know listens to music exclusively from their own background, so at the very least one of those losers in Hufflepuff would have liked U2.
